27Jul2004 (Monthenor): R-Type
Final: I continue my long streak of never beating any RType game I
play. This game was pretty, difficult, and featured over 100 ships for me
to unlock. After throttling it down to Kids difficulty (just one notch
down from Normal) I managed to get most of the way through the
single-player game, unlock a few different ships, and have a grand ol'
time.

A couple of days later I was planning on finally sitting through
the whole thing. With a couple of the later ships I had unlocked plus
my nearly four hours of play in the early game, I figured I could
power through it in another three hours. Of course, I was operating
under the assumption that the game had saved my progress. That's
right. Somehow, in my previous afternoon-long play session, the game
had failed to notice that I had a memory card and that I perhaps might
want to save what I had done. Nothing was saved. Nothing. No
warning.